Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For perhaps one second it remained a river bank , but then it became the shingle and sand beach fifty yards from my childhood home . |
| 2 | Although classed as a village it has a town hall in the market place . |
| 3 | The Faculty asks much of its students ; in return it offers a course programme that rewards and repays resourceful study and academic success . |
| 4 | As a consequence it provides a snapshot view of the use of the first category and is likely to understate the importance of fixed-term contract working insofar as this is a form of seasonal working . |
| 5 | As a suffix on a variable name it indicates a string variable . |
| 6 | Incidentally , on the next page it carried a demo tape review of an up-and-coming Hull band called The Housemartins whom it dubbed , ‘ Fresh , crisp and spiky . ’ |
| 7 | When the suitably insulated conductor is wound round a rod of soft iron it forms a bar magnet . |
| 8 | Under the 1979 Constitution it has an executive President , directly elected together with a Vice-President for a single four-year term . |
| 9 | During the course of that century and with the extension of the Great Northern Coal field it became a mining area . |
| 10 | The following is an example of a passage from the study , based on an extract from a newspaper report It contains a surface anaphor that does not conform to Hankamer & Sag 's criteria . |
| 11 | To that end it eschewed a leadership cult and had a formless organization , although a council decided its policy . |
| 12 | Last year it bought a minority stake ( 49% ) in Equitable Life , America 's fourth-largest life insurer , for $1 billion . |
| 13 | If the economic and social structure of our community develops in such a way that in retrospect it seems a conventionalist strategy would have been more suitable , then pragmatism will already have brought the reigning pattern of adjudication very close to conventionalism . |
| 14 | Intel has had difficulty getting working parts over 40MHz and even at that reduced speed the silicon produced so much heat it required a heat sink and a fan ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 15 | At the same time it keeps a marketing hand on the tiller for products such as marine , yacht , packaging , coil and powder coatings . |
| 16 | It lost all fruit along the way and by the time it received an export licence it was beyond drinking . |
| 17 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 18 | Within a short time it had a waiting list and larger premises were acquired in the Old Kent Road . |
| 19 | In this case the printer issues a Line Feed every time it receives a Carriage Return . |